One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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